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papery, cauline bract

https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/mjpapay/81580-skink-id-by-ty-smith

Viola palmata var. triloba

Sandy area along Iron Ore Heritage Trail

Moss Bluff Rookery

Immature with perigynia not fully developed.

Table mountain pine, I think, growing around the edge of the granite outcrop.

At Pond Woods Wildlife Management Area

At Pond Woods Wildlife Management Area

At Pond Woods Wildlife Management Area

Albino

On black locust

M.J. Oldham 3859, replicates to CAN, MICH 1361469, das, NHIC# 01817 (home); identified as Carex appalachica by A.A. Reznicek 1985 (sub C. brunnescens det. MJO); rich woods

Found in rich mature sugar maple forest on small sandy knoll

Known population, about 50 clumps in general area on 1-2m high sandy hummocks in deciduous forest.

Poa bulbosa

Fruiting bodies emerging from bark fissures on dead bole of American chestnut.

On right, with pappus white and elongated beak on achene (L. biennis on left).

On left, with pappus brownish and stout beak on achene (L. canadensis on right).

Cutts Island Trail - Rachel Carson

Growing on dead standing ash

That the wings are intact suggests that this individual succeeded in its quest to find a mate, and afterwards, expired. Its body then a feast for the ants, of which one is present.

At Bristol Pond

Margin of boggy woodland pool in the upper floodplain of the Haw River.

Rocky River.